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Heaven on Earth
Heaven on earth or a serious discourse touching a well-grounded assurance of mens everlasting happiness and blessedness. Discovering the nature of assurance, the possibility of attaining it, the causes, springs, and degrees of it, with the resolution of several weighty questions. By Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Gospel at Margarets Fishstreet-Hill.Heaven on earth or a serious discourse touching a wel-grounded assurance of mens everlasting happiness and blessedness. Discovering the nature of assurance, the possibility of attaining it, the causes, springs, and degrees of it, with the resolution of several weighty questions. By Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Gospel at Margarets Fishstreet-Hill.
London: printed by R.I. for John Hancock, 1654
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sixthly, Prayer is another of those sweet things that accompanies salvation, Rom. 10. 10. 13. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Act. 2. 21. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. That is saith one, he shall be certainly sealed up to salvation. Or as another saith, he that hath this grace of Prayer, it is an evident sign and assurance to him that he shall be saved: Therefore to have grace to pray is a better and a greater mercy, then to have gifts to prophesy, Matth. 7. 22. Praying souls shall find the gates of heaven open to them, when prophesying souls shall find them shut against them.
Sixthly, Prayer is another of those sweet things that accompanies salvation, Rom. 10. 10. 13. For with the heart man beleeveth unto righteousnesse, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Act. 2. 21. And it shall come to passe, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. That is saith one, hee shall be certainly sealed up to salvation. Or as another saith, he that hath this grace of Prayer, it is an evident sign and assurance to him that he shall be saved: Therefore to have grace to pray is a better and a greater mercy, then to have gifts to prophesie, Matth. 7. 22. Praying souls shall finde the gates of heaven open to them, when prophecying souls shall find them shut against them.
Seventhly and lastly, Perseverance is another of those prime things that accompanies salvation,